Exploits collecting "free" wood #3: Colors of the kill

now that are slow was finally melted I can get back to hauling logs for the winter. Where I had been getting logs from is currently buried with snow. So I went shopping through the hills for trees I could get to. Found a very large patch that was very easy to access.

It’s located near a scenic area

Although I look for all kinds of trees, beetle kill pine is by far the most common one that I do cut down. Most people think that the only color of beetle kill is blue and white, however it comes in many colors. Today I was pleasantly surprised when I was cutting some trees down and found red spots in the wood. The red fungus is much less common than the blue fungus. I usually expect about 1 out of 10 trees to have red (or pink) streaks in them. I cut 6 today and they all had red spots.

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Cool. We had a freak 5 minute snow “storm” here in southern Indiana today. I was at home and heard it going nuts outside. It’s way too early for us to have snow here. So the idea of everything being snow covered make me want to go climb in my bed under 5 warm quilts and stay there all night. LOL

Great to live in an area that beautiful. Of course, Louisiana isn’t really much to look at (at least the New Orleans area) we don’t ever have to worry about digging ourselves out of snow. Happy for you Monte, that wood is spectacular.

Andy, That is a SD thing. It doesn’t surprise me trees would be horizontal. I towed my travel trailer through there many years ago. It was towing at quite an angle with the back about a foot our of line due to the wind!

Lucky find Monte. I have some dying big leaf maple I am hoping will be stapled when I drop it ;-)

-- Bob in WW ~ "some old things are lovely, warm still with life ... of the forgotten men who made them." - D.H. Lawrence